Abwehr

The '''' (; German for "resistance" or "defence", though the word usually means "counterintelligence" in a military context) was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1944. Although the 1919 Treaty of Versailles prohibited the Weimar Republic from establishing an intelligence organization of their own, they formed an espionage group in 1920 within the Ministry of Defence, calling it the Abwehr. The initial purpose of the Abwehr was defense against foreign espionage: an organizational role that later evolved considerably. Under General Kurt v

The Brandenburgers () were members of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht special forces unit during World War II.

Ethnic Ukrainian unit of the World War Two German Army.

secret military police of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War

military unit

military unit

German unit in Slovakia during World War II

Bergbauernhilfe (BBH)– ("mountain-peasant’s help", ) – codename of the Abwehr II subversive operations unit of 120 men recruited from the OUN members. It was established on August 15, 1939. This unit was disbanded on September 28 of the same year, and Abwehr was ordered to cease contacts with Ukrainian Nationalists with the advent of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

unrealized plan by Germany to invade Northern Ireland